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Feature: How one man tracked down Anonymous—and paid a heavy price

Aaron Barr believed he had penetrated Anonymous. The loose hacker collective had been responsible for everything from anti-Scientology protests to pro-Wikileaks attacks on MasterCard and Visa, and the FBI was now after them. But matching their online identities to real-world names and locations proved daunting. Barr found a way to crack the code. In a private e-mail to a colleague at his …
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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Reaffirms Quantum Data Deduplication Patent

SAN JOSE, CA–(Marketwire – 02/07/11) – Quantum Corp. (NYSE: QTM – News ), the leading global specialist in backup, recovery and archive, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has notified the company of its intent to issue a reexamination certificate confirming the validity of the company’s 5,990,810 patent (the “’810 patent”), the foundational patent in the area of variable …
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NetEx Signs South African Distributor Workgroup to Further Extend Market Reach of HyperIP Virtual WAN Optimizer

MINNEAPOLIS, MN–(Marketwire – February 9, 2011) – NetEx ®, a leading company providing a software-only WAN Optimization solution, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Workgroup to distribute its HyperIP® WAN optimization software throughout South Africa and the Sub-Sahara region to satisfy increased demand for improved data replication and accelerated file transfers within …
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